Strange travel for dog days

An odd set of maps suggests new directions, fresh perspective | Joel Belz

When I was still quite young, traveling with barely a care in the world through the peanut country of south Georgia, I was struck with how much closer the residents of that area were to the capital of Florida (Tallahassee) than they were to their own capital in Atlanta. What an inconvenience, I thought, for lawyers, business people, and common citizens. They had to drive three hours to their own state offices, when an easy 30-minute jaunt would get them to someone else's capital.

It wasn't an oddity, I discovered. Perhaps 20 percent of all U.S. citizens live with a similar handicap. People who live in Pittsburgh, Pa., are actually closer to Columbus, Ohio, than they are to their own capital in Harrisburg. Residents of San Diego, Calif., are closer to Arizona's capital in Phoenix than their own way up north in Sacramento.

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